39. In regulation 2 of the Hedgerows Regulations 1997(1), for paragraph (c) of the definition of “relevant utility operator” there shall be substituted—
“(c)any person to whom the electronic communications code is applied by a direction under section 106 of the Communications Act 2003 and who wishes to remove or, as the case may be, removes the hedgerow in question in pursuance of a right conferred by the electronic communications code.”.
S.I. 1997/1160.